Welker told Broncos: We’re the best offense ever, start showing it

Posted by Michael David Smith on February 4, 2014, 6:43 PM EDT

AP

Broncos receiver Wes Welker got fired up during the Super Bowl, and he tried to get his teammates fired up with him by reminding them that Denver’s offense had been all but unstoppable during the season.

NFL Films microphones caught Welker gathering his teammates together to try to give them a pep talk on the sideline after the Broncos struggled early. As shown on NFL Network, a frustrated Welker implored his teammates to play the way they had in the regular season.

“Hey! We’re the best damn offense to ever play this game,” Welker said. “We’ve got to start showing it.”

Welker knows what it is to play on a great offense: He played on the 2007 Patriots team that set the records for points and touchdowns in a season, records that the 2013 Broncos broke. Unfortunately, Welker also knows what it is to play on a great offense that disappoints in the Super Bowl. If the 2013 Broncos had the best offense ever, then perhaps we need to start labeling the 2013 Seahawks the best defense ever.

The best ever statistically but not sure if they were really the best ever. The changes that substantially softened what defenders could do the last couple years made it easy to run up the numbers they way the Donks did.

Defenders were hitting a lot harder in 2007 and even in 2011 while the soften defenses movement had begun within the league office, it hadn’t gone full force yet.

How many times did Welker go into the fetal position after a catch to avoid a hit?

edelmanfanclub says:Feb 4, 2014 7:04 PM

Im going sound like a biased jerk saying this but the best offense ever was probably the 07 Patriots. They played a much harder schedule. Yet still they only managed 14 points in the SB. Being the best offense is only part of the team. 8 Points by this record setting bunch was pathetic.

This game was over when after the AFCCG Welker had to show selected highlight tape of his team to convince themselves they were tough enough for the Seahawks.

thermanmerman99 says:Feb 4, 2014 7:07 PM

megahead mannings face should be the new international symbol for choking. the heimanning maneuver. COUGH COUGH GAGGGGG

thejackalofnight1 says:Feb 4, 2014 7:08 PM

Best offense ever? after what? beating during the regular season the Texans, Jaguars, Raiders, Redskins, Titans, Giants, who were a total of 27-69 and that’s nearly 50% of their schedule, not counting other teams that struggled like the Ravens and Cowboys.
This team , like the whole of the AFC sucked. And it won’t get any better next year, Denver fans, forget any chance of a SB with Manning, it will NEVER happen. Only in a dream.

The Denver Broncos deserve a lot of credit for their great season, including “the best offense ever.” However, either the players or scheme weren’t prepared for a great defense that was determined to win. That’s something Denver’s coaching staff should consider if they want to overcome what happened in the Super Bowl.

As good as the Seahawks’ defense is, if Denver’s offense was really the best of all time they would have been able to score more than 8 points. The reality is that today’s NFL inflates points scored compared to historically great offenses of other eras.

that game proved denvers offense was nowhere close to the best ever. it took a backseat to the the 2007 patriots and 1998 vikings, and the 1999 rams. i don’t know who the best offense ever is , but it certainly is not anything close to the broncos. they don’t even make the top 10. the john elway offenses in 97 and 98 were superior to this offense. seattle exposed denver as frauds who padded stats all season against terrible teams.

All you Welker haters… if Brady throws that ball 12″ lower and and/or 12″ to the left, he would have caught it.

Stop letting a bimbo wife influence your thinking.

thermanmerman99 says:Feb 4, 2014 7:54 PM

is it just me, or has there been a strange absence of megahead manning commercials for the last 48 hours. talk about refreshing. if that egomaniac wouldve won, there would be 800 new commercials of jughead manning over the offseason. i hope papa johns sales are free falling, i hope jughead manning actually has to eat papa johns for once in his life. how about a new papa johns pizza, for $8.43 , the new megahead manning pizza, the crust makes up 90% of the pizza to resemble mannings massive fivehead and its stuffed with whine and cheese for the manning apologists and guaranteed to make you choke within the first 4 bites.

babyfarkmcgeezax says:Feb 4, 2014 7:55 PM

Hard to show it when you’re playing against a PED-infused defense that commits pass interference on every play

seatownballers says:Feb 4, 2014 7:58 PM

Broncos injured reserve could beat the Vikings in Minnesota with the flu. The love boat is sinking

Clearly Manning is a fine quarterback and had a great year. But, the passing records today deserve an asterisk by them. It was only a few years ago when it was the rare wide receiver that was willing to go over the middle because they knew they were going to get the hurt put on them. Now any pansy will go over the middle, because DBs will be called for a penalty and fined if they breath heavy in their direction.

Any team that relies on altitude to smother opposing defenses gets exposed at or below sea level. The Pats defense was severely undermanned and yet managed to keep it within reach in the 4th. I knew then the Broncos would be torched in the SB by whoever they played.

Nice to see Welker lose even bigger with the Broncos than he did twice with the Pats.

Add to that a GOOD offensive line, and solid defense.
I don’t really think it’s even that close.

tigerlilac says:Feb 4, 2014 9:03 PM

Welker played a game of chicken with Belichick, a coach who took him from relative obscurity to a potential hall of fame career. I am sure he believed after the AFCCG that he made the right decisions that led to him leaving the Patriots for the Broncos. Reality must be hitting him as he gets married with the loss to Seattle overshadowing the ceremony. Retiring as Patriot would have set him up for life as a Patriots hall of fame player if not an NFL one. Instead, he over estimated his value in dollars and on-field play. He reminds me of the guys that leave their first wife, the loving dutiful one who they shared a wonderful relationship, for one that gives their middle age ego a boost. The Broncos will discard him when it suits Elway and without a Lombardi trophy his post-retirement presence will just be a reminder of failure.

Dude stop with the Seattle ped comments . They have 1 ped suspension in an entire year and he’s the only player on the team who was suspended for peds non of the rest are on the team .

The broncos along with 8 other teams HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF PED SUSPENSIONS AS THE SEAHAWKS .. Piggy backing an idea qualifies you as a moron and hater .

Also let’s look up some of the names of those so called suspensions over the past 4 seasons seeing how this is a new one and they count it from before . Those guys are practice squad inactive players .. Two were contributors in browner and Irvin . And two others were players who tested positive as they joined the team or before and served the suspension while on the team . The other John moffit had a prescription not sent in to the league but filed through the team .

So much about this ped crap is bogus and embarrasses you for not knowing this.also the damn redskins have more players suspended than Hawks until the recent substance abuse aka weed suspension . Meaning the whole time you call the hawks cheaters their is literally another team with MORE SUSPENSIONS . Just sad bc Was Sucks so well act like every player in Seattle cheats . Despite only having one player on the team who was suspended .

As much as I didn’t like Welker, didn’t want him back, and will forever hold the drop against him… I’ve gained more respect for him after this game. It’s becoming pretty clear that he was the only Bronco (coaches AND players) who showed up prepared and ready to play. He was the only Bronco who played well and when the team was getting its ass kicked he stepped up and tried to lead because even he knows he can’t trust Peyton Manning in a big game. He didn’t dodge the Brady/Manning questions by accident; he knows which QB he wants in a Super Bowl and on some level I feel some form of compassion for him. One slot receiver isn’t beating that Seattle team on his own.

So Welker had to fire up the offense? Where was the “Greatest of all time” on the sidelines, pouting in the corner? You know FOX was desperate to show anything resembling PeyPey imploring his offense to keep their chins up. . The “greatest” got angrier with a reporter after the game than he did during it. “Coach on the field” “defacto offensive coordinator” “MVP”??? How about “fraud”?

Love my Seahawks but not ready to claim ‘best ever’, just way too many rule changes and despite the pressure on Manning, we don’t sack enough. That bears defense was incredible in 85. However, with all the pro offense rule changes and passing and the best offense ever, and with Beast Mode not controlling the clock, the Seahawks held the Broncos to 8 points. They should be in the discussion but you can’t compare eras.
I still think Don Hutson is the GOAT for wrs not Rice.

If they played 10 times, Seattle would win 9 times only because of the any given Sunday factor. Otherwise I don’t know a scenario that Denver would win. Every matchup favors Seattle except for Den passing vs Sea Def. But considering the yards after catch that Denver had (50% of Manning’s yards were after catch on the season), and that is the strength of the Seattle defense, maybe that favors Seattle too…as we saw.

oldschoolnflman says:Feb 5, 2014 1:20 AM

Not everyteam has the luxury to be as deep as Seattle on defense, some teams pay their Qbs more than minimum wage each game. Enjoy the salary cap Seattle.

As a Ravens fan I always thought that the Ravens in SB XXXV and the ’85 Bears showed the best defense in the Super Bowl but no I have to tip my hat to Seattle this year because they destroyed Manning. I will however contend that Baltimore had the best defensive run in the playoffs of anyone with what they accomplished in 2000. They allowed 1 offensive touchdown in 4 playoff games. In fact they beat the Bears scoring defense record after 19 games!!!

patriottony says:Feb 5, 2014 5:46 AM

WES…you are something,,,You and YOU ALONE could have won the last superbowl….you catch that little 8 yard dump off pass,,sit down,,,and the game is over,,the pats run out the clock and you have your ring…
Worse yet is: BB you saved you from the rap that is MIAMI,,where they had you riding the PINE,,,,Tell me wes how many passes did you catch in MIA???????
BB brings you to NE,,when everbody laughed…WES WELKER???? matched you up with TB,,,and the rest is history, right up to the point where you felt “DISRESPECTED” and bailed on Tom Brady…YOU BAILED,,,not BB YOU DID

Why is there no analysis on Peyton throwing the ball beyond 20 yards. All year they need YAC for big plays. When you cannot throw down field, you cannot beat the Seahwaks. Peyton simply doesn’t have the arm strength to throw 20+ yards. Those small underneath routes are fodder for the Legion of Boom.

I wonder if Welker is missing Brady/Belichick now. The Pats still might have lost the game, but there’s no way Brady/Belichick would have let their team fold like that in the first quarter of the game the way Fox/Manning allowed the Broncos to do so. They would have rallied the team to give them to give them a fighting chance til the bitter end.

He must have short term memory loss from all those concussions because the 2007 Patriots offense was better then this Denver offense. Denver got lucky with a super easy schedule.
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With all due respect to the Patriots, they have had 6 easy games every year for more than a decade. Their division is complete garbage minus a satisfactory year or two from the Jets and one from Miami. And during those years where those teams didn’t completely stink the Jets eliminated them in the playoffs and Miami won the division.

The Patriots wouldn’t be who they are if they played in a division that wasn’t Junior Varsity. Probably why they are no longer competitive in the post season.

jackybadass says:Feb 5, 2014 8:57 AM

Welker you only had to catch 1 pass and you dropped it. Loser you lost 3 Super Bowls !

somethingsmellsrotten says:Feb 5, 2014 10:26 AM

Really furious76? You even watch any Donkey games and see Dicker and Duhmaryius push the defenders off to get open? It’s happened all season, but Seattle wouldn’t allow it…get a clue.

And to thermanmerman99: frickin’ hilarious man, you nailed it. Papa Johns pizza just sucks…a MegaHead pie for $8.43. Just awesome.

CKL says:Feb 5, 2014 10:26 AM

Wow Harveyredman, who is your team, the 1970s Steelers? The 80s 49ers? 3 straight AFCCs and the Pats are “no longer COMPETITIVE” in the postseason?” Pathetic and ignorant comment by you.

Pastabelly, I don’t hate WW, but it’s pretty clear based on how things went down over the offseason last year that he wanted out. And Amendola hasn’t worked out to date, true. That’s why they hedged their bets and had him and Edelman. And Edelman was fantastic in 2013. That role was well filled.

The Denver Broncos deserve a lot of credit for their great season, including “the best offense ever.” However, either the players or scheme weren’t prepared for a great defense that was determined to win. That’s something Denver’s coaching staff should consider if they want to overcome what happened in the Super Bowl.
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Great analysis. So much more reasoned than the “Broncos lost because Manning is a choker” rationale that seems so pervasive.

tigerlilac says:Feb 5, 2014 11:58 AM

The complaints that Seattle holds receivers and “cheats” is absurd. You play to win the game. The most novice fan knew that Seattle would play an aggressive physical coverage and that Denver’s line would hold on virtually every play. It only gets called when it is egregious (e.g., the the take-down leg whip) or once one team is running away with the game (Seattle had 10 for over 100 yards when the refs tried unsuccessfully to keep the game close). The biggest non-call was when Thomas held Sherman from behind, keeping him from a sure interception in the end-zone. Only losers and people who are getting dumped you the word “cheat”.

@taintedsaints2009
At least john fox wasn’t put in a time out and banned from his own facility for a year for being a dumba$$… Saints fans need to shut it..

vegasdestroyer says:Feb 6, 2014 2:45 PM

Peyton Manning better layoff the PapaCrappa John’s pizza. He looked like a soft doughboy in the Super Bore.

patriotenvy says:Feb 6, 2014 3:32 PM

After that first play Manning yelled at the snapper and you could see the guy went and sat on the other side of the bench and was T’ed about it. That is why P.Manning is no Tom Brady and Welker should have been happy in NE.